README.md

Ticker

Simple yet powerful time period based event dispatcher.

Features

• lightweight algorithm - see Ticker::loop()
• open architecture - see: TickInterface, TickableTrait
• automatically determined main loop's sleep time (based upon defined Ticks) to save on processor usage - see: Ticker::updateActiveTicks()
• threading supported for PHP 7.2+ - see: http://php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php
• several ways of defining task to be executed:
  • callbacks
  • trait based
  • extending class based
  • through factory (for threading)

Usage examples

Callback based

$ticker = new Ticker();

$ticker->addTick(new Tick(Time::SECOND, 1, function () {
    // do it every second
}));

$ticker->addTick(new Tick(Time::SECOND, 5, function () {
    // do it every 5 seconds
}));

$ticker->addTick(new Tick(Time::MINUTE, 1, function() {
    // do it every minute
}));

$ticker->loop();

Extending class based

$tick = new class extends Tick {

    protected $everyN = 1;
    protected $interval = Time::HOUR;

    public function run() 
    {
        // hourly task
    }
}

$ticker = new Ticker();
$ticker->addTick($tick);
$ticker->loop();